Today I turned 50!

Please type LOUDER and slower so I can understand!

50 isn't old.... if you're a tree.

G E T O F F M Y L A W N ! ! ! !

Hows that.

Insert some little face with an expression.

Oh yeah, congrats. Hope you got something cool.

At a birthday party for an acquaintance of mine some time ago, he didn't want to be reminded that he turned 50. So, the birthday cake read "Happy Half Century Stormin' Normin!"

Welcome to the club – it ain't so bad!

Yeah, you get used to it after a while.

50 is the new 30

You are TWICE as old as I am...

When I turned 50 I figured out I can do the same things as when I was 30. Just takes longer and more tools.
Ain't so bad. Only as old as you feel.

Punk.

Holy E36 M3 that's old!

I've got a few months to go. But I did have my "50,000 mile check-up" at the doc's today. I think he drained half of my blood for tests. AND I get to have a colonoscopy

Well it is after nine so I best be getting off to bed.......

4eyes wrote: AND I get to have a colonoscopy

DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS!

A colonoscopy ruins your bunghole. They put you to sleep so they can be anything but gentle with you. They destroy the muscle tissue.

It truly changes your life. You will never casually just go to the bathroom again. It will become an event that you have to work around. It can take hours to recover afterwards. I have friends who can no longer take a dump sitting down. They have to stand up because otherwise their insides want to push out. You definitely won't be able to take a magazine to the bathroom ever again!

I'm not talking hemorrhoids or at least the traditional hemorrhoid. This is much worse. It's like when all the elastic goes out of your socks.

They warn you about this in the most general way. Kinda like saying "you'll feel a little prick". (hey, you never know what goes on while you're asleep on the table) Afterwards when you ask why they didn't tell you they'll say "But we did, we said you might experience some discomfort when you go to the bathroom."

carguy123 wrote:

4eyes wrote: AND I get to have a colonoscopy

I'm not talking hemorrhoids or at least the traditional hemorrhoid. This is much worse. It's like when all the elastic goes out of your socks.

berkeley.

carguy123 wrote:

4eyes wrote: AND I get to have a colonoscopy

DON'T DO IT UNLESS YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS! A colonoscopy ruins your bunghole. They put you to sleep so they can be anything but gentle with you. They destroy the muscle tissue. It truly changes your life. You will never casually just go to the bathroom again. It will become an event that you have to work around. It can take hours to recover afterwards. I have friends who can no longer take a dump sitting down. They have to stand up because otherwise their insides want to push out. You definitely won't be able to take a magazine to the bathroom ever again! I'm not talking hemorrhoids or at least the traditional hemorrhoid. This is much worse. It's like when all the elastic goes out of your socks. They warn you about this in the most general way. Kinda like saying "you'll feel a little prick". (hey, you never know what goes on while you're asleep on the table) Afterwards when you ask why they didn't tell you they'll say "But we did, we said you might experience some discomfort when you go to the bathroom."

None of those things happened to me. I didn't feel any difference whatsoever.

None of those things happened to me. I didn't feel any difference whatsoever.

Then you are the exception to the rule. With so many of the Baby Boomers being of that certain age they talk, unfortunately this isn't a subject you bring up on polite society so they don't warn you ahead of time, but they'll definitely commiserate with you afterwards!

The doctors tell me what I described is more of a norm than an abnormality.

My birthday was Sunday. I'm half your age.

Carguy, maybe you should've chosen someone other than Dr. Assrape for your procedure. (I understand, though. You probably thought he was Indian and actually pronounced it "Osropee.")

Margie

carguy123 wrote:

None of those things happened to me. I didn't feel any difference whatsoever.

Then you are the exception to the rule. With so many of the Baby Boomers being of that certain age they talk, unfortunately this isn't a subject you bring up on polite society so they don't warn you ahead of time, but they'll definitely commiserate with you afterwards! The doctors tell me what I described is more of a norm than an abnormality.

Wow. I suffered none of those symptoms after my colonoscopy. Of course, I got mine at the young age of 32 due to symptoms, not as a full on grown up due to age.

My "O" bits are still full of natural elasticity.

My "O" bits are still full of natural elasticity.

Things get brittle as you age. Well if not brittle then saggy.

carguy123 wrote:

My "O" bits are still full of natural elasticity.

Things get brittle as you age. Well if not brittle then saggy.

This calls for a diagram.

Learn me on O-bits.

As a veteran 50 year old, I welcome you to the club.

Tom Heath wrote:

carguy123 wrote:

None of those things happened to me. I didn't feel any difference whatsoever.

Then you are the exception to the rule. With so many of the Baby Boomers being of that certain age they talk, unfortunately this isn't a subject you bring up on polite society so they don't warn you ahead of time, but they'll definitely commiserate with you afterwards! The doctors tell me what I described is more of a norm than an abnormality.

Wow. I suffered none of those symptoms after my colonoscopy. Of course, I got mine at the young age of 32 due to symptoms, not as a full on grown up due to age. My "O" bits are still full of natural elasticity.

Me neither, and nobody else I know that has had one or even several. Me thinks he had a baaaaad doctor.